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The Guardian reports:
The attorney general, William Barr, told Rupert Murdoch to “muzzle” Andrew Napolitano, a prominent Fox News personality who became a critic of Donald Trump, according to a new book about the rightwing TV network.
Barr’s meeting with Murdoch, at the media mogul’s New York home in October 2019, was widely reported at the time, with speculation surrounding its subject. According to Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth, by CNN media reporter Brian Stelter, subjects covered included media consolidation and criminal justice reform.
“But it was also about Judge Andrew Napolitano.” Citing an unnamed source, Stelter writes that Trump “was so incensed by the judge’s TV broadcasts that he had implored Barr to send Rupert a message in person … about ‘muzzling the judge’.”
Unbelievable. Barr’s meeting with Murdoch last year was to pressure Fox – a company that has been under DOJ investigation multiple times – to muzzle @Judgenap over his Trump criticism. Pure authoritarian thuggishness. https://t.co/8hscZOtRtA
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) August 22, 2020
At Donald Trump’s behest, Attorney General William Barr asked Rupert Murdoch to “muzzle” Fox News’ Judge Andrew Napolitano after he began criticizing the president on air, according to a new bookhttps://t.co/xRQ7L2u9Z1
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 22, 2020
“Napolitano thought he was being kept off air by ‘25-yr-old producers’ who didn’t think viewers could handle his analysis. Maria Bartiromo would only book Napolitano on non-Trump topics because he would upset Bartiromo too much if he criticised (Trump)” https://t.co/BEosckHqrK
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) August 22, 2020